My poem ‘Owning The Sky’ or ‘The Flats That Simms Built’ has just been turned into a beautiful short film by Paddy Cahill with original music by Irene Clancy and is available to view here https://vimeo.com/321215951 Last October I was commissioned by the organisers of Simms120 to write a poem about Herbert Simms, the amazing […]
Category: Non fiction
Free talk The Old Coach House, Old Lucan Road, Palmerstown Thurs 27 Sep @ 7.30pm all welcome
THE LIFE OF HELENA MOLONY: NATIONALIST AND FEMINIST Thursday 27th September 7.30pm. A talk by Nell Regan, author of Helena Molony: a radical life, 1883-1967 At The Old Coach House, Old Lucan Road, Palmerstown. All welcome. Hosted by Stewarts Care Library as part of South Dublin Libraries History and Heritage Summer http://www.southdublinlibraries.ie/sites/all/libraries/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/filemanager/files/HH18.pdf
20 September 5.45pm @ GPO Witness History as part of free Rebel Irishwomen Lecture Series
Thanks to GPO Witness Lecture Series and curator James Curran for an invite to speak on 20 Sep as part of the terrific Rebel Irish Women Lecture Series. Check out the full programme here Rebel Irish Women – 2018 Talk Series
Dalkey Book Festival 17 June 2018
Looking forward to speaking at this years Dalkey Book Festival on 17 June at this event 57. Unreasonable Women: the Equality War Goes On The Masonic Lodge 17 June, 2018, 12:00 pm Next year marks the 100 – year anniversary of women getting the vote in Ireland. Much has been achieved in terms of gender […]
2017 Book of the Year Irish Independent
2017 Book of the Year Irish Independent – Martina Devlin chose Helena Molony A Radical Life 1883 – 1967 as one of her books of the year in The Irish Independent on 24 December 2017 – in good company here! https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/from-banville-to-enright-irelands-bestloved-authors-choose-their-books-of-the-year-36425817.html
Ireland’s Notable Women @ Dublin Book Festival! 8pm 8 November Blanch Library
Really looking forward to talking about Helena Molony: A Radical Life at this years’ Dublin Book Festival. I’ll be taking part in the event ‘Ireland ‘s Notable Women’ in conversation with Martina Devlin along with Valerie Packenham on Maria Edgeworth and Clodagh Finn on Mary Elmes. 8 November, 8pm in Blanchardstown Library – the event […]
Irish Times and Dublin Review of Books reviews of Helena Molony A Radical Life by Catriona Crowe and Pádraig Yeates
There is a considered and lengthy review of Helena Molony: A Radical Life, 1883-1967 by Pádraig Yeates in July’s Dublin Review of Books. See http://www.drb.ie/essays/selfless-radical ” a book that has done more to rehabilitate its subject than anything else written over the past half-century.” ” There is no one better qualified to write her life than Nell Regan, […]
Podcast of Sunday Miscellany, RTE Radio 1, 30 April 2017
Delighted to have a piece in this broadcast about the first commemoration of Easter 1916. Great timing as it was also the weekend of the launch of Helena Molony: A Radical Life in Liberty Hall. You can listen to the podcast here https://www.rte.ie/radio1/sunday-miscellany/programmes/2017/0430/871473-sunday-miscellany-sunday-30-april-2017/?clipid=2472988#2472988
Irish Times article 28 April 2017
Putting Helena Molony back centre-stage in Irish history Nell Regan on her challenging but rewarding struggle to piece together the fascinating but overlooked life of a radical nationalist, feminist, trade unionist and actor… http://http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/putting-helena-molony-back-centre-stage-in-irish-history-1.3064886
Launch @ 3pm, 28 April 2017, Liberty Hall of Helena Molony: A Radical Life!
All welcome – come along on 3pm, 28 April to Liberty Hall to launch Helena Molony A Radical Life 1883-1967 off into the world. Delighted that it is taking place in Liberty Hall 100 years on from the date Molony, Rosie Hackett & others marked the first anniversary of the Rising so dramatically. Her name seems […]